by Thom Phillips Your “A” race is fast approaching, and you’ve been putting in more hours than you care to remember, but as you approach the big day it’s important to maximise those training adaptations through a well planned and structured taper. A taper is a period of 10 days to 3 weeks where you […]

There is plenty of information about tapering available – how to reduce your hours, what sort of sessions you should do and so on. This article describes what actually happens to our bodies during this time and why it is so important. If you are a novice triathlete training for a sprint distance triathlon maybe […]